Today’s podcast guest is Pat O’Donnell, President, YESCO Outdoor Media. Pat manages an out of home plant with 2,250 faces and sits on the board of directors of the OAAA and Geopath. Pat talks about doing 63 tuck-in acquisitions, using Blip, priorities for the year ahead and hot-button legislative issues. […]
Podcasts
Anna Bager Says Out of Home is a Hot Medium
Today’s podcast guest is Anna Bager, President and CEO of the Out of Home Advertising Association of America. Anna talks about growing up with billboards, why out of home is a hot medium, why she joined the OAAA, where out of home is doing a good job and where it […]
Andrea Messimer-Henley on How to Sell Out of Home
Today’s podcast guest is Andrea Messimer Henley talks about how to sell out of home. Andrea is Sr Director of Sales and Business Development at Adomni. On the difference between posters and bulletins. Bulletins are larger…poster showings get more local penetration…A bulletin is like you use a hose to water […]
Prismview’s Szczepaniak on Tariffs and Trends in Digital Billboard Design
Today’s podcast guest is Don Szczepaniak, President and CEO of Prismview, a Samsung Electronics company which manufactures indoor and outdoor display products including digital billboards. Don talks about what Prismview has done to reduce the impact of tariffs and trends in digital billboard design. To receive a free Prismview […]
Ubimo’s Ran Ben-Yair on Data and Out of Home
Today’s podcast guest is Ran Ben-Yair, President and CEO of the location intelligence company Ubimo. Ran discusses how to use data to target out of home audiences, mistakes out of home companies make when using data and whether google will enter out of home buying. Here are the highlights. Talk […]
Diana and Hal Stevenson on running an independent out of home company.
Diana and Hal Stevenson own Grace Outdoor, a South Carolina headquartered company with 300 billboard faces in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Tennessee. On the Billboard Insider podcast they, talk about the importance of sales, being independent in a world dominated by the big three, cloud-based tools for […]
Jim Matalone on Starting and Running Ashby St Outdoor
This week’s podcast guest Jim Matalone talks about starting, running and selling Ashby St Outdoor, an out of home company with 1,908 faces in Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri. Talk about the formation of Ashby Street in 2011. Before Ashby St I had been running Next Media Outdoor which was […]
Mike Norton on running a family-owned out of home company.
Today’s podcast guest is Mike Norton, President of Norton Outdoor Advertising, an independent out of home company with 900 traditional and 14 digital billboard displays in Ohio. Mike represents the third generation of Nortons to run the business. Mike sits OAAA Board of Directors, Digital billboard and Innovations committees. […]
Sean Reilly on Lamar’s Corporate Culture
On this week’s Billboard Insider podcast Lamar CEO Sean Reilly talks about the search for a new OAAA CEO, Lamar’s corporate culture, sustainability, programmatic out of home, Landmark Infrastructure, tariffs and what keeps him awake nights. You head the OAAA committee which is searching for a replacement for Nancy Fletcher. […]
Max Drachman says the deal market is “incredibly strong.”
The out of home deal market is “incredibly strong” says out of home investment banker Max Drachman on this week’s Billboard Insider podcast. Max has more than 10 years experience in out of home dealmaking with Kalil & Co. Here are some highlights. Your firm Kalil is also a large […]